Buckle.



UNITED STATES .Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFicE.

JOHN B. H EINOLD, OF=KEARNEY, NEW JERSEY.

Q L -t SPEUIFEGATION forming part of Letters Patent N 739,120, dated June 2, 1903. Application fiua'rebrw 28,1903. Serial N 145.569. cut-maul) To all whomjit Tn/(1 y cancer-n":

Be itknownthatIfJOHfl B. HEINOLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kearney, in the county of Hudson 'andjState of New J ersey, have invented a new and useful Buckle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvementsin buckles, and has for its object to combine with an ordinary buckle a pad or other'suit-1 able lock which may be applied without decreasing the strength of the strap or materially increasing the weight or expense of the buckle; and the invention consists in certain novel features of the construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims. I

In the drawings illustrativeof the invention, in which corresponding parts are'denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1- is a perspective view of the device applied.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved buckle detached. i Many forms of receptaclessuch as telescopes,valises, hold-ails or ext-ension-satchels, some forms of trunks, hampersgtnd the likeupon which binding-straps are employed and also articles secured by-shawl-straps dependence is frequently had. to the straps only for the security of the contents, and the improvement which is thesubject of the present invention is designedto secure such straps by providing means wherebyapad or other lock' may be attached to the bucklesand so constructed that it does not interfere with the A ordinary use of the buckle or weaken orotherwise affect-the straps. The buckle-frame (represented at 10) will be of the ordinary form and provided with the outer transverse *barll and rear transverse bar 12, as shown. Extending from the outer bar'11 .is a lug 14, relatively thin in cross-section and disposed longitudinally of the buckle-frame and transversely of the bar and provided with a relatively large transverse aperture 15, adapted to receive the bolt 16 of a padlock 17.

Movably connected to the rear bar 12 is a tongue 18, provided with a relatively elongatedaperture 19, adapted to engage the lug 14 and be locked in position thereon by the lock-bolt 16,"between the bolt and the bar 14, as indicated. T

By forming the lug 14 relatively thin the aperture 19in the tongue 18 can be formed correspondingly narrow, so that it'will not be necessary to materially increase the width of the tongue to receive its aperture. Hence the presence of the connecting means does not require the aperturefor the tongue in the strap to be materially increased. Thus the straps used in connection with the improved buckle will not be weaken'ed,while at the same time they will be supported in precisely the same manner and capable of all the adjustments of the ordinary buckle and strap. All that is required is to form the tongue-apertures in the straps a trifle longer than ordinary, but not larger transversely, as the yield- ;able nature of the strap material will readily permit the passage'of the slightly-widened portion of the tongue opposite the aperture 19 Without affecting the texture of the strap. The slight elongation of the tongue-apertures in the straps, it is obvious, will not lessen their tensile strength.

The improved device may be attached to any of the ordinary forms of buckle-frame or to any special form of frame employing a movable buckle-tongue.

Having thus described my invention, what 'I claim is bars at its opposite ends and with a lug exture for a lock-bolt, and a tongue rotatively my own I have hereto affixed my signature in connected to the other of said transverse bars the presence of two witnesses.

and havin an aperture in its free end lon iv tudinally 3f the tongue adapted to engage JOHN HEINOLD' 5 said lug between its aperture and the buckle- Witnesses:

frame, substantially as described. CARRIE B. WAKE,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 1 A. J. SGHULTE. 

